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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Julie Ward Drew, Redwood City, CA (US);
Freddy Chua, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ying Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Puneet Sharma, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Example implementations relate to virtualized network function (VNF) placements. For example, VNF placements may include generating an initial mapping of a plurality of VNFs among a plurality of nodes of a network infrastructure, wherein the initial VNF mapping distributes each of a plurality of service chains associated with the plurality of VNFs to different top-of-rack switches. VNF placement may include generating an alternate VNF mapping of the plurality of VNFs among a portion of the plurality of nodes, wherein the alternate VNF mapping corresponds to a metric associated with node resource utilization and a particular amount of servers utilized by distributing the plurality of service chains according to the alternate VNF mapping. VNF placement may include placing the plurality of VNFs according to a selected placement from the initial VNF mapping and the alternate VNF mapping.